Johnstone v. Thompson

HUNSTEIN, Presiding Justice.

Joseph C. Thompson, a Cobb County taxpayer, brought a petition against the Cobb County School Board, its members and its superintendent (hereinafter “appellants”), seeking mandamus and injunc-tive relief regarding appellants’ use of proceeds from a special purpose local option sales tax (“SPLOST”) for educational purposes. At issue was the $75 million technology portion of the SPLOST proceeds, specifically, appellants’ decision to use $59 million of the technology portion to fund its “Power to Learn” initiative, which would provide a laptop computer for every…